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When MTV first started in 1981, the network broadcast wall-to-wall music videos. Since then the network has grown increasingly corporate with less music and more commercialism. MTV's Movie Awards show, airing tonight, is sign of how far from those beginnings the channel has come.

A new generation of huge telescopes has helped astronomers discover distant planets and galaxies. But they're just the start. Mirrors for what is to be the world's largest telescope are being cast in Arizona.

Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl offers some summer reading recommendations, with the proviso that they're not exactly literature. Hear Pearl and NPR's Steve Inskeep.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with NPR music critic Ann Powers and music scholar Shana Redmond about how old and new protest music reflects political moments, following the Supreme Court overturning Roe.

The saxophonist, who began his career in the '70s, has played with notable names like the Beach Boys and Cannonball Adderley. He's still flowing with music.

Played on three string instruments, this music was the country's soundtrack from the turn of the 20th century to the 1940s.

The former U.S. Attorney and longtime New Yorker staff writer has a new book about the nation's highest court. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court contains new information about the 2000 presidential election challenge.

Compact and intense, the New Jersey band's songs channel the spirit of punk, but also the density of heavy rock that's had the fat cut out.

Van Etten's new album, Tramp, is titled after the touring artist's time of essential homelessness. It's full of unresolved restlessness, infinite-loop longing and expansive vocals.

Gallagher's feuds with his brother and band mate Liam were as famous as the music they made together. Three years after Oasis' split, the guitarist and songwriter has re-emerged under the name Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.